Items 17/18: Sewage Sludge Is Gross
There’s a self-storage place out on Old RR 12, right next to the shopping center with the Pita Shop. The shopping center and the self-storage place share a septic tank. The septic tank is old and degraded, and leaked sludge up and out onto the driveway of the people living next door.
Right now, this is the county’s problem, and the county hasn’t done much for the past four years. The self-storage people want to be annexed into the city so that they can get on city water, and get off the septic tank.
Max Baker proposes tabling this until the county can weigh in with their plan to fix the remaining situation with the shopping center.
Shane Scott points out that the applicant needs help as soon as possible, and shouldn’t be punished because the county drags its feet. He has an analogy about a roommate trying to get out of a situation with a bad roommate, which fits nicely.
Then Mark Gleason points out that either way, the longterm solution is for the shopping center to hook in to city water and waste, and so we should get going on that infrastructure, and not delay any further.
Look, the conservative guys are both right! Good job, guys! I agree.
In the end, it passes.
The San Marxist 